Alex Gollner has a quick tip on how to speed up navigating through multiple tabs.

Read the tip here.

From Creative Cow-

Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross is one of a very small handful of the world’s most respected FCP experts. Over the course of years answering questions, he’s compiled a real-world list of the questions that are truly the most frequently asked. He calls them Shane’s Stock Answers. We call them the information you really need for working with FCP. Here in Part 3, he covers QuickTime issues, timecode management, P2 tips and much more, including one of the most frequently questions of all: how to open new projects in older versions of FCP.

Read the FAQ here.

Also, check out The Ultimate Real-world FCP FAQ Part 1 and Part 2.

From Creative Cow-

Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross is one of a very small handful of the world’s most respected FCP experts. Over the course of years answering questions, he’s compiled a real-world list of the questions that are truly the most frequently asked. He calls them Shane’s Stock Answers. We call them the information you really need for working with FCP. In part 2 he covers HDV monitoring, editing web codecs, working with Photoshop files in FCP, and much more.

Read the FAQ here.

Also, check out The Ultimate Real-world FCP FAQ Part 1 and Part 3.

From Creative Cow-

Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross is one of a very small handful of the world’s most respected FCP experts. Over the course of years answering questions, he’s compiled a real-world list of the questions that are truly the most frequently asked. He calls them Shane’s Stock Answers. We call them the information you really need for working with FCP. In part 1 he covers lossless QuickTimes, digitizing across timecode breaks, some of his favorite freeware add-ons, and more.

Read the FAQ here.

Also, check out The Ultimate Real-world FCP FAQ Part 2 and Part 3.

Little can compare to the agony of wanting to show a sweet effect to a client, and you have to render first. Getting the hang of rendering is definitely a needed skill, as it’s just a much a part of the process as setting your scratch disks. This tutorial comes from Eric Meek from the Final Cut Studio School.

Watch the video tutorial here.

Sure, you can do most anything in Final Cut with a mouse, but there may be a better way with shortcuts. I’m a bit of a shortcut nerd, and like to challenge myself by picking up a new shortcut every project. But the default shortcuts sometimes just don’t cut it.

In this tutorial, Larry Jordan not only shows how to change most shortcuts within Final Cut, he also takes it a step further to show how to change ANY shortcut in ANY program.

Read the tutorial here.

From John Fitzgerald at Shootyourself.net:

“Trashing Prefs” is an absolute must when you are using FCP. From time to time, FCP will start behaving in odd ways – error messages, system crashes, failure to recognize firewire devices, etc. You name it, it has probably happened to someone at some point. Chances are, “trashing prefs” was the solution to a majority of the problems.

Read the complete tutorial here.